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Mountain view Khan academy already counts 10 million monthly users, and Neeru Khosla Palo alto-based CK-12 Foundation provides free online tools to more than 38,

In the meantime, Stipek said success in the field remains about much more than the number of users a provider can claim. don give a whole lot of confidence in just the fact that (the technology) is being adopted,

The new technology makes it easy for users to read as quickly as 1, 000 words per minute by focusing userseyes on a single word at a time.

ensuring users can rapidly recognize them. his method makes communication faster, easier and more effective by removing the inefficient eye movements associated with traditional reading,

According to the company, with traditional reading, users spend 80%of their time simply moving their eyes

and the Gear 2 smartwatch. ith the growth of wearable devices, Spritz patent-pending technology will enable Samsung device users to read emails comfortably

At 1, 000 words per minute, users could potentially read the shortest Harry potter book he Sorcerer Stone,

The cover includes a number of physical buttons to aid disabled users. The Ultrasonic Cover emits a high-frequency sound, listening for the sound wave that bounces back.

as well as many others, all keep meticulous track of user data for advertising and other purposes.

which could allow users to opt out of advertising with anonymous#micropayments. Yet many#other cryptocurrencies#such as#Namecoin#are attempting to take the protocol that enables this

or if their user experience made it easier to accept than reject automated targeting. What if, for example, a robot tasked with destroying an unmanned military installation

The discovery may help explain why marijuana users say they take the drug mainly to reduce anxiety,

so the more casual user is stuck likely printing in one or two colors. But Cédric Kovacs-Johnson and Charles Haider, both chemical engineering undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, say they have come up with a solution:

Users can physically bend the phone in ways that resemble real-world behaviors, with input and output becoming virtually indistinguishable.

the user just uses the ring form-factor, Ramakers explains, referring to a shape that resembles a prayer bead necklace;

and just roll through it. e is not even aware that he is scrolling through elements as in a traditional interface where the user explicitly interacts with a scrollbar,

The user fingers are tracked also to enable touch interaction on the device. The projector maps the user interface onto the device

and also distorts the device in response to the user movements. The team plans to create a prototype that entirely self-contained by replacing the external tracking system with tiny integrated displays like O-LED

and E Ink displays that are sensitive to the user movements. They expect to have a working prototype in another 12 to 18 months.

Currently Paddle provides visual cues to the user to communicate how the device can be transformed,

while, allowing users to perform transformations as unconsciously as they might drive a car or play an instrument.

These include allowing users to create new asset classes, such as stocks or other ownership certificates,

#Bitcoin partisans, from developers down to rank-and-file users, often seem to revel in the idea that they are threatening the control and profits of Wall street institutions,

With his software Witty says users can set up and run a real-time experiment in a virtual online classroom that can explain

Users of OGA software typically rely on a circuitous collection of homegrown tools that are patched together.

and several user experience enhancements e

#HP Sports AMD Firepro GPUS in Proliant DL380 Gen9 Servers Today AMD announced that the AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU for HPC is now available on the HP Proliant DL380

"These devices are capable of producing black-and-white patterns that spontaneously match those of the surroundings, without user input or external measurement,

#Paradigm#s new solution covers entire upstream workflow Paradigm has released the latest version of its integrated solution suite, Paradigm 14, to its worldwide user base.

to deliver high-definition images that enable users to see the smaller features that are important in modern reservoirs.

These capabilities benefit users by: Defining rock properties using seismic inversion, seismic facies classification and on the fly-fly attribute calculation Identifying potential hydrocarbon locations with AVA inversion and QC of pre-stack seismic data Predicting flow for well planning

The center is working on something like Big data for smart batteries turning these mysterious devices into information centers that according to doctoral student Mohammad Rezvani can tell their users

"The 6 Strangest Robots Ever Created The researchers said that this new method of building machines could serve as a form of 3d printing for robotics, turning a complex manufacturing process into something that's both more accessible and less expensive for the average user.

The DEKA Arm System, developed by the company DEKA Integrated Solutions in Manchester, New hampshire, uses wireless signals from sensors in the user's feet and other inputs to control the arm's multiple joints.

The user can select among six different grips. The arm's development would not have been possible without a host of technological advances

thanks to a futuristic submarine that lets users"fly"underwater. The Deepflight Super Falcon, developed by California-based Hawkes Ocean Technologies,

Users load the syringes with raw food ink dough chocolate or anything with a liquid consistency and the machine prints the food by depositing layers of liquids to build the desired object.

The project would deploy a fleet of 648 microsatellites capable of providing low-latency high-speed Internet access directly to small user-based terminals all around the world.

and allows users to upload and run their own algorithms. Source: BCC Researchother firms offer a range of approaches.

Ingenuity Systems in Redwood City, California, allows users to upload a list of mutations in a person s genome,

Users can interact with Brainx3 in real-time by perturbing brain regions with transient stimulations to observe reverberating network activity,

Within the immersive mixed/virtual reality space of Brainx3 users can explore and analysis dynamical activity patterns of brain networks

users would need to drink only one to two milliliters of the liquid to obtain a standard prescribed dose."

I/O developer conference, displaying how users could move their fingers in the air to control objects in the virtual world.

#Brain-Sensing Headband Helps Users Manage Stress Technology and relaxation don always go hand in hand. However, a brain-sensing headband that reads brain waves

and provides real-time feedback has been developed to help users better focus and manage stress. The Muse headband is lined with seven EEG sensors that detect the brain electrical activity

and sends information about the user state of mind to a smartphone app, Calm, which is available on both ios and Android.

Users are asked then to participate in a three-minute guided exercise that aims to reduce stress, calm anxiety and increase focus and concentration.

For instance, out-of-the-box apps planned for release will allow users to scan food for nutritional value.

If the internet service providers that rule the physical infrastructure of the internet start charging web services to deliver content to users,

and display that info to a user, says Downey, Airware CEO, who researched and built drones throughout his time at MIT.

and available to designated users. If a company decides to use a surveillance drone for crop management, for instance,

and a collaborative-conferencing system called Mezzanine that allows multiple users to simultaneously share and control digital content across multiple screens,

with six degrees of freedom, allow users to manipulate content such as text, photos, videos, maps, charts, spreadsheets,

and multiple-user capabilities into Mezzanine. t was the first killer application we could write on top of g-speak,

#Ride sharing could cut cabs road time by 30 percent Cellphone apps that find users car rides in real time are exploding in popularity:

which enables users to build large and complex 3-D models out of a set of parameterized components,

When app users plugged in custom parameters for problems such as the diameter of that spherical obstacle the app would compute a solution for the new parameters by referencing the precomputed data.

which enable users to vary properties, such as geometry, density, and stiffness. Engineers can then access

sales, opening a Web platform to users, and hiring. e needed a sounding board, Knezevic says. e go into meetings

Vietnam, and Switzerland building a community of users, and planning to continue its involvement with edx classes.

So the same device could in effect determine the user s prescription and automatically correct for it.

which has amassed a vast facial-expression database is also setting its sights on a mood-aware Internet that reads a user s emotions to shape content.

and use it to enrich the user experience. In using Affdex Affectiva recruits participants to watch advertisements in front of their computer webcams tablets and smartphones.

One of Affectiva s long-term goals is to usher in a mood-aware Internet to improve users experiences.

Sometime in the future this could mean computer games that adapt in difficulty and other game variables based on user reaction.

Wearing the robot a user could use one hand to for instance hold the base of a bottle while twisting off its cap.

As a user works with the robot it could learn to adapt to match his

Although openpds can in principle run on any machine of the user s choosing in the trials data is being stored in the cloud.

You as a user have absolutely no way of knowing what that means. The permissions don t tell you anything.

A developer who discovers that a previously unused bit of information is useful must request access to it from the user.

If the request seems unnecessarily invasive the user can simply deny it. Of course a nefarious developer could try to game the system constructing requests that elicit more information than the user intends to disclose.

A navigation application might for instance be authorized to identify the subway stop or parking garage nearest the user.

But it shouldn t need both pieces of information at once and by requesting them it could infer more detailed location information than the user wishes to reveal.

Creating safeguards against such information leaks will have to be done on a case-by-case application-by-application basis de Montjoye acknowledges

because it allows users to control their data and at the same time open up its potential both at the economic level

an EECS Phd student studying power electronics, said during the team pitch. t empowers users to build their own grid, from the ground up,

#Bringing the world reboot-less updates It s an annoyance for the individual computer user:

and downtime for the users Arnold says. After winning the 2009 MIT $100k Entrepreneurship Competition for the software Arnold co-founded Ksplice Inc. with Waseem Daher 07 MENG 08 Tim Abbott 07 SM 08

users requested an ascension pace of 10 feet per second. But Atlas found that as soon as you maneuver over,

as well as for first responders. here a broad spectrum of users people who use rope access as part of their work for

biometric sensors will be featured in 40 percent of smartphones shipped to end users With the way technology is developing and the increasing consumer demand,

-which requires expensive equipment sophisticated processing methods and user expertise. This manufacturing cost is a major reason why semiconductor devices such as solar cells lasers

when one material grows on another said nanoscientist Elena Shevchenko of Argonne Center for Nanoscale Materials a DOE Office of Science user facility.

Thanks to state-of-the-art X-ray analysis provided by Argonne's Advanced Photon Source (APS) a DOE Office of Science user facility the researchers identified the cause of the dumbbell formation as lattice mismatch in

and colleagues including Ban turned to expertise and a unique instrument at EMSL DOE's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory a DOE Office of Science User Facility at PNNL.

The APS CNM and EMC at Argonne are Office of Science user facilities. The team also developed a filter circuit that separates the chemical and magnetic data from the x-ray-induced currents

what circumstances says Graham referring to reports of Government agencies accessing user data from tech companies like Google and Facebook.

For the very first time a general strategy to manufacture inorganic nanoparticles with user-specified 3d shapes has been achieved to produce particles as small as 25 nanometers or less with remarkable precision (less than 5 nanometers.

"said Elena Rozhkova, chemist at Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials, a DOE Office of Science (Office of Basic energy Sciences) User Facility."

and took them to Berkeley Lab for examination with intense X-rays from the Advanced Light source synchrotron a DOE Office of Science User Facility.

and can be done at synchrotrons such as ALS or SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron radiation Lightsource also a DOE Office of Science User Facility.

and all 307 million United states users switched from batteries to flexible solar it could save more than 1500 megawatts per year.

So if a fraction of the 6. 6 billion mobile phone users globally changed to solar it would reduce our carbon footprint a lot.

a DOE Office of Science User Facility that provides beams of high-intensity x-rays for studies in many areas of science.

Housed within the Center for Nanoscale Materials a DOE Office of Science User Facility the spectroscope allows researchers to use light to shift the position of one atom in a crystal lattice

Users still typically have to dish out extra cash for a filter or filmome of questionable effectivenesso lay on top of their glass screens

"however due to its success access to this prototype is offered to users and is in high demand.

the prototype will continue to be used for scientific studies together with users from the SLS.

Selective variation of the individual components allows the developers to react to the particular and different needs of potential users.

since 3d printing allows user-specific or site-specific manufacturing of highly functional products Chen said.

or warm the user according to their needs. Very small quick changes in temperature on parts of the skin with high blood flow can make the whole body feel several degrees cooler

and image processor and users attach their smartphone as a viewfinder.##Editors will need software that selects the best images not just the ones from the right place at the right time.

With Scoopshot a Helsinki software start-up publishers can send photo assignments to the service s network of 300000-plus mobile users.

In typical cloud computing users connect to a powerful centralized data center. But Cappos's cloud is less of a dense thunderhead and more of a fog.

Because Seattle allows users to access the Net with foreign IP ADDRESSES it enables developers to view their sites

By the end of 2012 Seattle had 20000 users. Cappos and colleagues are now working on software that could access the sensors in smartphones as well.

Users (who need only a few days'training) dissolve samples inside a small beaker in the machine.

The user compares that image to one of a genuine sample. If the two don't look the same,

Users then send a photo of the paper to an automatic Web service for a"real"or"fake"response.

Other programs she s designed make data self-destruct after a set period of time help users track

As long as companies aren t saying what they do with users#information she ll work to make public how that personal data is shared.

Wireless communications systems in the robots will allow users to control the droids remotely. The robot is a tensegrity structure

Wary users can also employ tools to convert voice or text messages into spy-proof gibberish.

The project has gotten attention around the Internet this week thanks to a new press release announcing that the Harken system has tested een by users in closed track tests,

it's a notable accomplishment for a system that does not involve putting any sensors in direct contact with the user's skin.

but as many as there are users. This makes it very attractive as it has grown from a purely technological tool to a real social platform a

and microphone to the user smartphone drastically cutting the cost of production. If a robot is intended to improve people lives it shouldn be expensive right?

Users can talk to Hellospoon using voice commands and Hellospoon can answer back and play songs

when the user decides to stop eating. It interactions like these that make mealtime more entertaining andâ help to establish a bond between the user and the robot.

We know that every user is different and so Hellospoon behaviours can be customized to suit the user individual needs and preferences.

For example we are developing a profile system where Hellospoon will behave playfully when interacting with kids

and respectfully when interacting with elderly users. My name is Luis Garcia and I#m a recently graduated 23-year-old Mechatronics Engineer from Sinaloa Mexico;

I also the developer designer programmer and crazy guy behind the Hellospoon robot. I have been developing Hellospoon for the past year

This enables users to share tutorials getting started guides and also their own individual projects.

Builder and all-around maker of mechanical and electrical systems with a passion for user interaction. Wire-framer of ideas and framer of ideas out of sculpture wire.

and local communication could cooperatively self-assemble into user-specified shapes. This is what they came up with.

The cap then deciphers the intention of the user and transmits the instruction to the exoskeleton

The exoskeleton user wears sleeves created by a team lead by Prof. Hannes Bleuler at LSRO EPFL and NCCR Roboticsâ and stemming from the ongoing Phd work of Simon Gallo.

and allowing the user to walk upright. Thus the wearer can sense what feels like an artificial footprint on their arm as the sensors roll from heel to toe.

and an avatar to allow the user to see real time limb positioning. One of the major challenges of the project was the training process for the eight volunteers (males

but we see that various aspects of the system are appreciated differently by the different users.

and technology should be both adaptable and tailored to user needscurrent plans are to put the system into commercial production next year based on an upfront fee

Louise conducted usability tests throughout the development phase in order to improve user experience and quickly discover

which allows users to choose how much to simplify 3d models in the database during the deployment stage

With Gzweb Mobile users can visualize simulations on mobile phones and tablets and interact with the scene inserting shapes and moving models around.

and are used to decode the intentions of the user and a power source is used to activate the hand in one of four different grasping motions.

However the tests indicated that this was not the case thus opening up the technology to a wide range of potential users.

The user can control the music player simply by looking at a series of flickering boxes on a computer screen.

and as the user looks at them their brain synchronizes at the same rate. This brain pattern reading system developed by Rosanne Zerafa relies on a system involving Steady State Visually Evoked potentials (SSVEPS.

As the user looks at the boxes on the screen the computer program is able to figure out the commands allowing the music player to be controlled without the need of any physical movement.

or change the song the user just has to look at the corresponding box. The command takes effect in just seconds.

#Rehabilitation support robot-cloudmakes muscle movement visible Associate professor Toshiaki Tsuji Laboratory at Saitama University has developed R-cloud a rehabilitation support robot that enables users to view how their own muscles

#Sharp futuristic Health care Support Chair a proactive health care solution Sharp has developed a health care support chair that combines a range of sensors for checking the user health.

while looking at the information the user has obtained so far.?Rather than people who are ill going to the doctor our idea is for healthy people to think about how to stay healthy prepare for any emergencies

These sensors are used currently only for user feedback. The camera used on the robot is a Gopro Hero 3 where it serves as a demonstrator for a visual sensor.

Usually they need to be fitted custom to the user remaining arm which can rack up medical bills with consultations and fittings.

It uses stick-on electrodes to read signals from the users remaining muscles which can control the hand telling it to open or close.

because the user can select any colour it easy to switch from a right hand to a left hand

Secondarily wee created a simple platform for publishing these academic user experiments projects online why settle merely for a handful of undergrads to sample with?

and even worn without restricting the users movement. The integrated circuits are manufactured on rolls of one micron thick plastic film making them easily scalable and cheap to produce.

Here the user is operating the master robot. This demonstration enables you to experience for example how you can feel the reaction force

An interchangeable wireless module (either Wifi or proprietary frequency hopping spread spectrum) allows us to communicate with each unit e g. telemetry and user commands;

a script takes 3d models designed by the user in CAD software converts them into 3d curves

Rethink recently launched an academic version of Baxter with a Software Development Kit (SDK) enabling users to train the robot and share their programs with other Baxter owners.

This new update also enables users to coordinate actions across Baxter s two arms. Baxters are being produced at a pace for sales of 500+units in 2013.

#We believe these new robots will soon cross the chasm between early adopters and mainstream users.##

###Once purchased our users can expect a steady stream of software upgrades giving them access to all the new features on the latest robots to leave the factory.

Promote a platform for collaboration among product users as individuals or organizations. Product as a service:

Last year, Prakash and his team distributed 10,000 Foldscopes to eager users willing to test them out.

Users are submitting their findings at the Foldscope site, with investigations ranging from first-graders looking at banana seeds to detection of parasitic worms in fecal samples.

and corral more user activity into the social network's streamlined walled garden rather than directing users off into the messy outside web.

According to a company survey, nearly half of its 1. 5 billion users come to the site actively looking for products,

Facebook has been fervently trying to change that with ads that place more emphasis on prodding users into taking action

Existing neuroprostheses require the user to generate specific brainwave activities for particular motions xtend left arm, for instance.

The software, dubbed Matriarch for aterials Architecture allows users to combine and rearrange material building blocks in almost any conceivable shape.

and it is not necessary that friends be in the same closed user group service for talking and messaging.

The fast-growing social network founded in 2010 in San francisco has disclosed not the number of its users

but analysts say it has some 47 million in the United states and additional users worldwide.*

and Time warner Cables well as many users of video-sharing websites. Today, 3play's system works much as it did at MIT,

and let users click words to bring them to that exact moment in the video. In addition to Johnson, 3play's cofounders and system co-inventors are Josh Miller MBA'09, Chris Antunes MBA'08,

3play has developed also a number of tools aimed at easing workflow. One tool allows users to switch captioning formats with the click of a button;

another lets users cut -and-paste text from the interactive transcript to create clip reels.

the calculator crawls the user's channel to tally viewership of noncaptioned videos and, based on that data, estimates the boost in traffic and search-engine optimization,

as well as other tools in DOE's EMSL, a national scientific user facility. While this work focuses on single nanoparticles, the final result is extended an array with implications that stretch from the atomic scale to the mesoscale."

"Our challenge was to produce a design that allows users to quickly comprehend large datasets

enabling a user who is not familiar with simulation to customise the model and execute it in a distributed way,

One of our apps is built specifically to help users visualise our sofas in their home with augment reality."

his proof-of-principle terahertz linear accelerator demonstrates the potential for an all-optical acceleration scheme that can be integrated readily into small-scale laboratories providing users with electron beams that will enable new experiments in ultrafast electron diffraction and X-ray production

specifically describing the tech used to help a computer identify hand motions made by a user.

meaning it would make gesture interaction theoretically less painful for users, and therefore more likely to be used at all.

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